Julie Powell is a photographer, writer and educator, offers unique photographic opportunities and inspirational ideas to help YOU become the photographer you wish to be.
All in Photoshop 101
Looking for a quick tutorial on How to blur your background and change focus with Photoshop Neural Filters, here it is.
Sometimes we have unwanted objects in our frame, or in the case of the below image my background didn’t quite cover all I needed. However, there are a few ways to quickly and simply do this. Like using the Clone Stamp tool to expand your frame.
On a recent creative portrait series, Celestial Beings, I added some cool iconic Halos. It really added to the Goddess and Divinity look of these images. They are actually quicker and easier to create than you might think. So I put together a little video on How to create Halos in Photoshop.
My home studio isn’t overly large, to begin with, but what to do when your backdrop isn’t quite large enough to cover the area in your image? Photoshop’s powerful AI tools to the rescue.
Using the Lasso tool in Photoshop for selections can be a little tricky if you’ve never used it before. But it is actually super simple.
The Orton Effect is a photographic technique that blends two different photos of the same scene to achieve a mix of high and low detail areas. It essentially adds a gentle blur and glow to give a dreamlike quality to landscapes and portraits. It was originally conceived by Michael Orton in the 1980s.
How to use the Brush tool in Photoshop, perhaps you have never really used the brush tool or indeed Photoshop.
The Gradient Map actually maps out the different tonal ranges within your image and applies the Gradient Map to that.
How to use the Spot Healing Brush Tool in Adobe Photoshop? Great for fixing sensor spots and fly-away hairs, and so much more.
How to use the Patch Tool in Adobe Photoshop? Great for fixing bags under the eyes, missing bits of fur and other edits that come up.
In this last instalment of my colour grading mini-series, I take a little look at the different tones in your image with the Color Balance adjustment, allowing you to add various colours to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows of your images. I personally like to add a little yellow in my highlights and a little blue in my shadows, but you can play around and find a colour balance that’s just right for you.
In the last video (Part one) we looked at Selective Color, this instalment I take a little look at the Channel Mixer in Photoshop. I really like the quick and easy way to work with the different channels of color even in a B&W/Monochrome image.
There are so many great ways to use colour in Photoshop non-destructively. From altering the colour of clothing to subtle adjustments in shadows and highlights. You can use a myriad of tools or just one or two. In this three-part mini-series, I explore a few of my favourites. Starting with Selective Colour.
A great way to add some interest to your photos is with using LUTs in Photoshop. LUTs (Lookup tables) have mostly been using for color grading film and video for years, think cinema blockbusters.
I adore using curves in Adore using curves layers in Adobe Photoshop, I think I use that one tool, more than any other, quick and easy and can make such a difference with little effort.
Did you know you can create your own gradients and color swatches with Adobe Color?
